Polani Travels Quotes & Sayings

A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion. — Ted Naifeh

Writers should be proud of the fact that they can do something that 99% of the public will never be able to do. You'll hear many, many people say to you, 'I think I'd like to write a book one day'. They won't. Because they haven't. — Stevyn Colgan

Its front sags against its neighbor to the right, clinging for support like one of its own drunken patrons. — Glen Cook

The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part, had developed all her sympathies; and as her tears fell upon her father's cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor for ever do battle with the world, but be a woman in it. Towards her mother, too, Pearl's errand as a messenger of anguish was all fulfilled. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do. — Amy Acker

Maybe it doesn't matter, maybe if we all force ourselves to act like we're okay even if we're not, eventually things will get better. — Nina LaCour

The hip-hop guy nodded curtly, like he knew that, and despite appearances to the contrary, he had not been trippin', but had, in fact, been chillin' like a mo-fuckin' villain, so step the fuck off, wigga. He crossed against the light, limping slightly under the weight of the subtext. — Christopher Moore

I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

With the rise of industrialism, words like 'normal' and 'defective,' words that had once only been used to refer to things, began to be used to refer to people ... In the industrial age, a new degree of uniformity was expected of people. The rhythms and pacing of life could no longer be organic. People became expected to function like things. — Anne Finger

I think at a certain age I became conscious of the power of words. And it was fairly late. I was kind of a goofball - but I was always subconsciously thinking about issues. — Barack Obama

The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself. — Barbara Walters

Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures. — Andrea Seigel